STAND. COM. REP. NO.1060

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1004

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1004, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF CONVICTED DEFENDANTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal part III of chapter 353, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), referred to as the Interstate Parole and Probation Compact.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary and the Hawaii Paroling Authority. The Honolulu Police Department testified in support of the measure in its original form.

Your Committee finds that part III of chapter 353, HRS, was enacted in 1937 to enable Hawaii to participate in the first interstate compact for supervision of probationers and parolees to manage the movement of offenders between participating states and territories.

In 1999, Hawaii joined other states to begin a change in compact management in an effort to better meet the states' needs in interstate supervision of adult offenders. Chapter 353B, HRS, enacted by the legislature authorized a new Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision to become effective upon no less then 35 states' enactment. The new compact was enacted by the 35th state in June 2002. On November 18, 2003, the new Compact will regulate the movement of offenders between its current 41 member states and non-signatory states.

Your Committee now finds that the 1937 Compact must be repealed, to eliminate duplicate national interstate requirements, two leadership structures, costly multiple procedures and policies, and to reduce compact dues.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1004, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair